Jim Powell

Jim Powell is an American poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. Powell is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow (Poetry), a scholar, and the author of books of lyric poetry and translation from classical Greek and Latin, including: It Was Fever That Made the World, Sappho: A Garland, and Catullan Revenants. His poems, translations and literary criticism have appeared widely in literary journals and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain, including ... more
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